Eine Liebe Aus Nichts Barbara Honigmann, Marion Gehlker, Birte Christ

Barbara Honigmann's "Eine Liebe aus nichts" is the first in a series of readers that includes cultural and historical information and extensive vocabulary annotations alongside the original German text. Rich in twentieth-century German-Jewish history, this novella tells the story of a daughter's search for an identity and the roots of a past that her parents have denied.The book, which is intended for intermediate German classes, also provides: an introduction to literary strategies, study lists for active vocabulary, "language in context" exercises, a variety of activities for close reading, creative writing, and literary analysis, and dialogues and discussion questions.

Marion Gehlker is senior lector and language programme director for Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Birte Christ is a Ph.D. candidate in English Philology at the University of Freiburg, Germany.